Birth Date: 2 February 1816

Death Date: 27 January 1893

Gender: Male

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William Wheeler, Birth Date: 2 February 1816, Death Date: 27 January 1893, Birth date is confirmed by the missionary register and his death date is confirmed by his burial record.
					
					William initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with his family in the James McGaw Company in 1852, as indicated in Perpetual Emigrating Fund General Files and Delna Swapp Powell&rsquo;s book.&nbsp;
					
					William and his wife, Mary Coombs Bradley, and two daughters Mary and Elizabeth, left Liverpool, England, on the ship &ldquo;Ellen Maria&rdquo; with 378 Saints.&nbsp; William&rsquo;s wife and daughter Mary died on July 21/22 of cholera when the company was about 14 miles west of Spring Creek.&nbsp; William and his surviving daughter, Elizabeth, reached the Salt Lake Valley.
					
					In 1855, William married Elizabeth Case Milam, who also traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in his same company.
					
					At the end of a mission to England, William traveled home with the Thomas E. Ricks Company in 1866, according to a Deseret News Article of 30 August 1866.&nbsp; He left for his mission in 1864.&nbsp; &nbsp;

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William Wheeler

Birth date is confirmed by the missionary register and his death date is confirmed by his burial record.

William initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with his family in the James McGaw Company in 1852, as indicated in Perpetual Emigrating Fund General Files and Delna Swapp Powell’s book.

William and his wife, Mary Coombs Bradley, and two daughters Mary and Elizabeth, left Liverpool, England, on the ship “Ellen Maria” with 378 Saints. William’s wife and daughter Mary died on July 21/22 of cholera when the company was about 14 miles west of Spring Creek. William and his surviving daughter, Elizabeth, reached the Salt Lake Valley.

In 1855, William married Elizabeth Case Milam, who also traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in his same company.

At the end of a mission to England, William traveled home with the Thomas E. Ricks Company in 1866, according to a Deseret News Article of 30 August 1866. He left for his mission in 1864.

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1847–1868

William Wheeler

James McGaw Company (1852)

Traveled with

Thomas E. Ricks Company (1866)

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